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In this case, 'use warnings' was the problem. I had to transfer this stuff to a system that had perl5.005, then had to remove that pragma. It was early in the morning and I neglected to add -w to the shebang line.

I just have this new keyboard that I am getting use to
He he he... Funny:-)
I think I'll use it in a new sig:
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This is my sig. It's not much since I just have this new keyboard that I am getting use to...:)
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BTW, why weren't you running under "-w"? That would have immidiatly caused perl to shout "Use of uninitialized value in string eq...", which is quite a strong hint at what's wrong:-)